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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,1968
ISRAEL FEARS WAR
PHANTOM
BY U.S.
LEADERS IN MOVING NEW YEAR APPEAL
Special Canadian Jewish News report
ROSH HASHANA EVE ON THE JORDAN BORDER- A mother in the Beisan Valley of Israel inspects her gun in the presence of her children
The Hebrew year 5729 will be ushered in throughout the world with hope mingled with fear. On Sunday evening, September 22nd, as Jews in all lands gather in synagogues to pray for peace and tranquility, uppermost in their minds will be the new conspiracy directed iron} the Communist action centers against the State of Israel.
The reborn Hebrew nation in the Land of Israel is armed and ready to defend itself against all provocations.
In Jerusalem President Zaiman Shazar and Prime Minister Levi Eshkol issued calls to Jews everywhere wishing them a happy New Year and stressing the bond of solidarity and destiny uniting our people wherever they be.
*A glimmer of hope about some progress in the peace negotiations with Egypt has been noticed at the United Nations in New York. Also Israeli circles denied vehemently a New York Times report that President Johnson had refused to deliver
Phantom Jets to strengthen the country's defense.
The fact that both major candidates in the U. S. election have declared themselves in favor of supplying sophisticated arms to Israel encouraged the valiant defenders of the Jewish nation.
Also there are some indications that France is discussing delivery of arms.
From Jerusalem it is reliably reported that Israel has launched the production of its own jet planes, which confirmed the impression in the international community that despite all odds Israel is capable of developing its economy while girding for defense.
A note of caution has been voiced by Defense Minister Moshe Oayan who declared that it seems more like war than peace in the coming year because of provocations of foreign governments.
On September 24th, the United Nations General Assembly will meet in New York and will discuss the Arab-Israeli conflict.
BIGGEST NEWS
PRODUCE SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT
New York(JCNS)-Israel is to begin next year making her own supersonic aircraft because of her failure to persuade France to lift the embargo on the supply of the 50 Mirage fighter jets, which
have been ready for delivery for more than a year.
This was announced by Mr. Zeev Sharef, Israel's Finance Minister add Minister of Commerce and Industry, at a dinner in New York, on
by MJ. NURENBERGER
5729
On the threshhold of the New Year, the Jewish people in their supplications arid prayers perhaps are interpreting the most profound aspiration of a tortured generation. It is a generation when we implore the Creator to remove from out hearts the fiear of mah and substitute a universal fear of God which, according to one text, will bring about this brotherhood of human beings united with a perfect heart in the Zion of our dreams.
Sunday attended by 450 leaders of the Israel Bonds Organization in the United States and Canada.
Mr. Abraham Feinberg, the president of the Bonds Orgjuiization, who is known to be close to President Johnson, expressed confidence that Israel would be supplied with the supersonic F-4 Phantom jet by the United States,
The Bonds leaders, who met for a three-day emergency economic conference, inaugurated a drive to sell bonds worth $100 million during the last four months of this year, in response to an appeal frbm Mr. Levi
Eshkol, Israel's Prime Minister.
So far, $65,548^700 worth of bonds had been sold during the first eight months, Dr. Joseph Schwartz, the organization's vice-president, told the delegates.
Dr. Yosef Burg, Israel's Minister of Social Welfare, told the conference that his country was determined to maintain the standard of living of immigrants ami long-term settlers in spite of the heavy defence burden.
He emphasized that the boiids drive was needed for the work of reconstruction and rehabilitation and for industrial development in Israel.
ROBAKfS. JOHNSON. DENNI50N ISSUE ROSH HASHANA GREETINGS
trudeau calls JEIs uniting factor in new year message
DIefenbaker demands steps to secure Israeli freedom
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau has issued warm greetings to the Jewish community through The Canadian Jewish News, stressing the Jews' contribution to cementing Canadian unity.
(Mr. Trudeau's Rosh Has-.hana message appears in full in the magazine section of this issue.)
Similar expressions of good wishes to the Jewish community were released through this newspaper by Premier John P. Robarts of Ontario and Pretnier Daniel Johnson of Quebec.
(Mr. Robart's message appears inside this paper).
Very warm meetings to Toronto's Jewish community were issued by Mayor
William Dennison and the City Council ,of Toronto.
(The Toronto City Council message appears in the magazine section.)
In Toronto, in a message to B'Nai B'rith former Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker demanded that the Canadian Government move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerur salem, the United City in
order to stre^ its moral support to the eml)attled Jewish state.
Mr. Diefenbaker also asked that the Canadian Government desists from supporting anti - Israeli resolutions at the United Nations.
Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year 5729, com-' mences Sunday evening,Sept. 22nd, and continues through Tuesday, sunset.
The central theme of the Rosh Hashana prayers is this oft repeated hope for the end of iniquity and the ushering in of an era of iustice and freedom. In order that suc^ an epoch in our history finally come about, we seek the "a-bolishmentof the rule of tyranny on earth."
For what is the Jewish people?, V\^t is it that makes us so different? Why, on our New Year, do we not emulate others in celebrating it like a carnival but observing it as a Day of Judgment, passing before the bar of the Almighty? • ».••••••»••»*•
A hasidic ieacher'was^Vfont to pray\on such occasions: Please, Lord, don't send me to Paradise yyhen my day
corhes: I don't deserve it. On the other hand, how can You.
send me to hell? I do hot belong there; l^ould be out of
place So perhaps it is iirhe to demolish hell in order that
we all rejoice with Thee.
It is possible, as we review our deeds collectively and individually, that we do not des&rve the blessings of Paradise oh this earth. But somehow the history of our suffering for thousands of years in many countries and on all continents mdkes us that people apart whose share should not be hell on earth.
JMiy should the best among lis often ask: Whither does it all lead? What is the purpose of belonging to this Chosen People?   Why should we not put an end to it?
These queries and expressions of self-analysis become haught as we gaze upon a tormented hunanity.
Are we the most domineering or are we the humblest, the meekest; pf all people when we declare there can be no Zion of fiedemptiori vyithout sttlf^ernancipation^ofhum^ ty from the iniquities of wars and conflicts yvfiich no dne wins and which solve no problems?
As in the prayer of this great hasidic teae^her, we stri^ for a world without hell that we all may witne^ the fulfillment pf the innermost ho^ of every man. woman and childoh this planet--thattytanhy end. '<Thistousis the meaning of dach New Year as we mark the passing of time, the finis \j/hich always sfiells a new beginning and a new hope.   ,-j ■
NEO
MOSCOW
Bonn, Germany (GF) — West Germany's far right National Democratic Party (NPD) and elements of its illegal Communist Party (KPD), banned since 1956 because of its wholehearted support to Communist east Germany, have lx)th sanctioned the Moscow-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.
The NPD went so far as to call for worldwide support of the Soviet Union against the "permanently revoltingpeo-, pies" of East Europe.
The KPD, actually just an
arm of east Germany's party, backed Moscow, but as quietly as possible. It has been seeking to regain admission as a legsd party in west Germany.
An overwhelming majority of vest Germans roundly condemned the invasion of C zechoslovakia and of ^nlz-ed massive demonstrations in sympathy with Prague.
The attitude of the NPD and KPD arebelievedtbhave earned them even moire hostility; than the large share they   previously received
from the masses of west Germans. This is expected to show up in future elections.
The NPD, which made a surprisingly strong showing in several west German state elections last year, had been backing the Russians against Czechoslovakia in its weekly newspaper "Deutsche Nach-richten" even before the in-' vasion.
ANTISEMITIC LETTER ANONYMOUS GREEK WRITER
BY
FEW ISRAEHS KNOW
OF CONSERSfA^WtMiD REFORM iUDAISIA :
by Rafael E. Gill .
Director, Pori Public Opinion Research of Israel
Jerusalem (Special)— Forty-one per cent of Is- . raelis never heard of the ConJsef vative movement, vchile 31 per cent never heard of the Reform movement, according to Pori's latest survey published in Tel Aviv this week. ■ y-r:
Of the rest who did hear of these twofmovements, 44 per cent said there was aplace for Reform Judaisin in Israel, and 33percentthat there was a place for the Conservatives.
A quarter said they were opposed to these movements functioning in Israel (26 per cent would not like to see a Conservative synagogue, and 25 per cent a Reform synagogue established Ini Israel). ;,
The survey was nation-wide, taken among a sample ofl,550 people, aged 18 religious alike. \
and jjyer, religious and non-
Athens; (JCNS) - Police investigations in Athens and Salonika have failed to uncover the identity of the writer of apoisofious antlsemitic
letter, signed with a false name, which aH)eared in the July issue of a prominent Greek weekly, "ieikones".
The weekly, which was published in Athens by the Papyros Pournaras publishing house, has since closed down. Before it did so, how-, ever, Mrs. Pournaras, who heads the firm, refused to divulge the real name of the writer of the letter. "If you want details, you can take the matter to court," she told Jewish community officials;
The letter accused "French Jewish scientists" of sabotaging France's nuclear program and declared that Jews "hid in cellars and behaved like tr^acher-OKs cowards during the war-
time Nazi occupation of Greece".
ATTACK IN ARGENTINA
fiuenos Aires (JCNS) ^ Furniture was wrecked and antisemitic slc^ans, including "Death to the Jews", daubed on the walls of the Mapam club Mordecai Anil-evich, in the Argentine city of Rosario, 200 miles northwest of Buenos Airies, during a night raid on Tuesday by supporters of Tacuara, the neo-Nazi antisemitic organization.
Swastikas, as well is the slogans, Were painted on the walls both inside and outside the premises and the signature, "Tacuara", was added
to some of the slc^ans.
The Rosario branch of Da-ia, the representative organization of Argentine Jewry, has protested to Dr. Alfredo Cbrrea, the Minister of the Interior of the Government of Santa Fe, which is the area's administrative auth-ority.
The- protest emphasized "the concern of the whole Jewish community" at the excesses ,[ of "extremist groups with ideQlogies alien to the spirit of the country". Such groups, it said, were undermining the basis of Argentine understanding and hafntiony. v
Tel Aviv (JCNS) - There has not been a single case of an Israeli soldier deserting in the face of tbe enemy, Mr. Shlomp Shamgar, the outgor ing Defence Forces judge-
advocate, said-last week, on assuming his new post as attorniey-general. ;
He has been succeeded as judge-advocate by Colonel Zvi Hadar.
Istanbul, Turkey (JGNS) -The Istanbul Expres, anln^ dependent newspaper here, has warned both the Turkish President aiid the^Cabinetxin an open letter that thepblldy of Bugun,4herightwIhgjour-\ nal that has conducted an antisemitic anti-ilsrael campaignjxls threatening the
"national unity and the existence of the Turkish peo-^ple/'\^■..-'^ ■ Jin a series of front:page articles, Expres also accused Mehmet Seyki, Egyptian editor of Bugun, of receiving^ financial aid from Arab countries, including 2,000 Sterling from Saudi
Arabia and 1,600 Sterling from Iraq.
Expres attacked Btigunfor blackmailing the Turkish Jews who, ItJssaid, were more patrlotic.than the Bqgun writers and editor. It stressed that Jews were participating in military service as well as paying their taxes.
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